Asia-Pacific Foreign Investment Brief
The FDI, Trade, and Economic Development Community

Sending and receiving goods across borders is becoming so complex—and the penalties for missteps so steep—that risk management in trade...

The 2022 edition of the WTO’s World Trade Report presents new analysis and recommendations on how international trade and greater...

Five years after the entry into force of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), many countries have made progress in implementing...

The promise of TradeTech: Policy approaches to harness trade digitalization Technology has always propelled trade. From the invention of...

The International Chamber of Commerce and the World Trade Organization have today published the first-ever toolkit to help companies and...

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Set to Become W.T.O.’s First Female Leader Her path was cleared after Yoo Myung-hee, the South Korean trade minister,...

Great to see 3 Women Trade Leaders in the shortlist for the next WTO DG with strong representation from Africa and Asia. The WTO took...

This year could end today and it would still rival the most challenging periods for the international trading system. But the next 3 1/2...

On May 14, 2020, then-director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Roberto Azevedo announced he would step down on September 1,...

Azevedo has claimed success on issues like a Trade Facilitation Agreement aimed to cut through delays in trade. But on his watch, the WTO...

A new information note published by the WTO Secretariat highlights how trade in goods and services has been affected by temporary border...

Interesting perspectives by DMITRY GROZOUBINSKI, The Lowy Institute ahead of WTO elections and at a critical time for the revitalisation...

As nations in Asia adapt to Covid-19, regional trade conflicts, trade embargoes and new trade deals, accurate trade intelligence is...

With the nomination of two hugely credible female candidates and representation from Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Europe and Asia...

Interesting insights By Krasna Bobenrieth When COVID-19 first started to garner attention at the beginning of 2020, nobody foresaw the...

Recommendations by GTDW Speaker Ziyang Fan Head of Digital Trade, World Economic Forum & Mike Gallaher The COVID-19 pandemic has...

The World Trade Organization’s Director General, Roberto Azevêdo announced his resignation effective 31 August of this year. His tenure...

The heads of the World Customs Organization (WCO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) issued a joint statement on 6 April pledging to...

Coalition of CSOs in Ghana has called on President Nana Akuffo-Addo to as a matter of urgency intervene and stop the Ghana Link/UNIPASS...

''Leveraging Data & Innovative Technologies to Comply with Trade Regulations, Mitigate Risks & Maintain Operating Margins in an...